Table-leaf support



(No Model.)

0. K. OLSON. TABLE LEAP SUPPORT.

Patented Nov. 24, 189 1.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 463,915, dated November24, 1891.

- Application filed April 28, 1891. Serial No. 390,824. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES K. OLSON, of Red Wing, in the county ofGoodhue and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and ImprovedTable-Leaf Support, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention relates to improvements in table-leaf supports; and theobject of my invention is to produce a support for dropleaves of tables,which support is extremely simple in construction, very easy of adjustment, holds the table-leaf in such a manner that it cannot possiblybecome loose by accident, and which may be easily released, so that theleaf will drop when necessary.

To this end my invention consists in a table-leaf support constructedsubstantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a broken sectional view showing the application of thesupport to a table, the leaf of the table being held up. Fig. 2 is asimilar view, but with the leaf partially dropped. Fig. 3 is a brokensectional plan on the line 3 3 in Fig.1. Fig. 4: is a sectional plan ofthe locking mechanism of the brace on the line 3 4 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 5is a detail cross-section of the brace end on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4-.

In the drawings, is the frame of a table, 11 the top, and 12 adrop-leaf, which is hinged to the table-top in the usual manner, asshown at 13. The table-leaf is supported byacurved brace 14, which isforked at its inner end, as shown at 15, and formed into an eye, and theeye is pivoted in a bracket 16, the lower portion of which is secured tothe table-frame, and the upper end of which terminates in a point 17,and the latter is driven into the frame of the table. It will thus beseen that the brace will be capable of swinging freely in a verticalplane. The outer end of the brace is provided with a transverse recess18, and the extreme end of the brace terminates in an upwardly-extendinglip 19, which forms one side of the recess 18 and which projectsslightly above the ordinary upper plane of the brace. The brace isadapted to movelonthrough a bracket 20, which 21 to receive the brace, aflat portion 23,which fits against the leaf and is firmly securedthereto, the terminal points 22, which are driven into the leaf, andatransverse slot 24, which receives the locking-key 25, and is deepenough so that the key is capable of a vertical movement therein. Thekey 25 fits nicely in the slot 24, and is also adapted to fit in therecess 18 of the brace 14. The key is adapted to rest flatwise in therecess and in the slot 24:, and it is provided with headed ends 26,which prevent its removal from the bracket 20.

he operation is as follows: When the table-leaf 12 is raised and broughtinto a level position, the bracket slides outward on the brace 14 andraises the latter, and the key 25 drops into the recess 18 of the brace,and the brace and bracket are thus firmly locked together. When anystrain is placed upon the leaf, the brace pushes outward as well asupward upon it, and the key 25 is inclined to tilt slightly in therecess 18, but it cannot be shaken loose. Vt hen the brace is to bereleased, so that the leaf may drop, both ends of the key 25 are raisedsimultaneously, so as to lift the key from the recess, and the tableleafwill then drop, the bracket 20 being forced backward on the brace 14, asshown in Fig. 2.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- In a table-leaf support, the combination, withthe curved and pivoted brace 14, having the transverse recess 18 in itsouter end, of the bracket 20, having the longitudinal slot 21 to receivethe brace, the transverse slot 24, and the bodily-movable locking-key25, having headed ends 26 and fitting loosely in the transverse slot ofthe bracket above the brace, with its headed ends projecting beyond thebracket, said key being adapted to drop into the recess of the bracewhen the table-leaf is raised into a horizontal position to lock thebrace and bracket together, substantially as herein shown and described.

CHARLES K. OLSON.

gitudinally bracket has a slot \Vitnesses:

DWIGHT M. BALDWIN, E. D. MORRIS.

